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The jolt we need to take on climate change
2013-01-10 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: If changing temperatures and rainfall patterns kill off coffee, will that finally spur us into action? THE introduction of coffee into Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries has been proposed as an important contributory factor to the rush of creativity and energy that spawned the scientific and industrial revolutions. How ironic, then, that the world's second favourite liquid after oil is under threat from climate change caused by industrial pollution. The coffee plant is inordinately fussy...